Historical Musicology
floragiordani@g.harvard.edu
Flora Saki Giordani is currently a first year PhD student in Historical Musicology at Harvard University. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from «Manuel Castillo» Superior Conservatory of Music in Seville, Spain in 2022 and her Master’s degree in Musicology from Boston University in 2024. She also studied harpsichord and piano at G. B. Martini Conservatory in her home town of Bologna, Italy. Her principal interests are the connection between sound, spaces and urban identity construction, Identity Theories applied to music networks, the Early Music Revival and the Historically Informed Performance movement, arts management, microhistory, and Spanish and Hispano-American heritage. She is a member of the research group «Misión M35: música de tradición oral en la provincia de Sevilla» headed by Dr. Miguel López Fernández, a subset of the Fondo de Música Tradicional – A Spanish Collection of Traditional Music Heritage directed by Dr. Emilio Ros Fábregas of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Recently, she founded the «Wanda Landowska» International Research Group in collaboration with scholars from the U.S., Poland, Spain, France, and Switzerland. Her monograph El redescubrimiento del clave y la figura del clavecinista en España durante el siglo XX: redes, tópicos y procesos identitarios won the III Premio de Investigación Musical “Juan Bermudo” and was published by Libargo in 2023. She is also a creative writer and translator and published a novel with Minerva Edizioni (Italy) in 2017.